Meet Jake Jensen

[tech_geek]

STATS
Name: Jake Jensen
Nickname/aliases: Jensen
Age: 26, 8/13/1989
Nationality: American
Canon: The Losers
Abilities: As the Loser's designated tech and communications guy Jensen is good at exactly that--tech and communications. He's a genius when it comes to computers, appliances, machinery, and other forms of technology (whether it be hacking complex algorithms with ease, rebuilding from new or scrap parts, or creating something from scratch entirely) and a wiz at communications whether it be short range, long range, or really long range.

But don't let Jensen's geek status fool you, he's Special Ops and with that comes all sorts of training. He can use a variety of weaponry (guns, knives, and even a crossbow for example) and can easily hold his own in hand-to-hand combat. He's also fast and surprisingly agile for someone his size.

As a communication specialist, Jensen can speak a handful of languages, including Pasho and Dari (the official languages of Afghanistan), Spanish, Arabic, Portuguese, and Russian as well as others.

Oh, yeah, and he's kinda a genius.
5 Items:
- Personal laptop
- Beretta M9
- Night vision goggles
- Ballistic vest
- Computer tool kit

LOOKS
Hair: Dirty-blonde
Eyes: Blue
Skin: Pale
Height: 6'0"
Weight: 194
Despite being the Loser’s resident geek, Jensen has kept himself in peak physical condition and is covered in muscle. Clearly, spending hours in front of the computer have done him no harm. Then again, that might be thanks to his many years of training. It's difficult to fall out of shape when you work with a Special Forces/CIA hybrid unit. He's not without scars (which is no surprise given his line of work).

As he was currently living undercover before being brought to Quiet Pines, Jensen's cut his hair shorter than is normal for him, grown out his goatee, and wears contact lenses instead of glasses. He has a tattoo on his left bicep of the Taurus zodiac symbol. He also has the Special Forces motto, 'De oppresso liber' (To Liberate the Oppressed), going down his spine in black ink. Another tattoo of coordinates are along his ribs.

He's usually seen dressed in jeans or khakis, and some sort of graphic tee.

PERSONALITY
Jensen can only be described as a geek with a heart of gold. He's fiercely loyal to people he cares about. This is especially true in regards to those he considers family which basically amounts to two groups of people--The Losers having been one and his older sister and his niece being the other. He will do anything for them and will always put them first, often at the sacrifice of his own happiness. That also means that if someone were to hurt someone he cared about, like his sister for example, they’d have him to deal with and he wouldn’t hesitate to fuck someone’s shit up.

The product of a rough childhood and a lifetime of never fitting in, Jensen’s self-esteem is pretty low and he’s guarded, letting people in only so close. He’s developed his fair share of coping mechanisms and ways to hide it, but they only do so much. He’s fairly socially awkward too, which probably doesn’t help with the other things. He cracks jokes constantly (often at inappropriate times), makes pop culture references all the time, and will call you on your bullshit. He has a tendency to ramble, especially when he's nervous, and if get him on a topic he’s passionate about he can go on for hours. Unsurprisingly, he can’t flirt for the life of him either--The harder he tries, the worse the result.

Normally, Jensen has a ready smile and apparently boundless energy. Though a realist, he’s definitely not a fatalist, and nothing seems to get him down, his upbeat, wise-cracking demeanor managing to remain intact even in the face of pretty dire circumstances (You know shit has gotten serious when he’s suddenly stopped making jokes). Sure, sometimes it’s an act, a way to pretend that everything is fine and dandy when everything is the exact opposite of that, but there is still some genuine Jensen in there. However, following the events of Bolivia, Jensen struggles even more with his PTSD in addition to survivor’s guilt.

BACKGROUND
Canon point of entry: After the events of the movie.

History: Looking for an escape from his life, Jensen joined the Army as soon as he turned 18. After ten weeks of Basic Training at Fort Benning, he was sent to Fort Gordon for ten more weeks of training, this time for Advanced Individual Training at the Signal Corps School. During these periods of training, he quickly gained a reputation as someone with a mouth on him.
 
After training was finished, Jensen was sent on his first tour of duty in Afghanistan. During this time, he was shunted from one unit to another, each one praising his skills as a soldier but condemning him as difficult to work with—A poor team player with a problem with authority. At the end of a 12 month tour, no one wanted him. But the Army, recognizing his potential, did not want to let him go to waste by sticking him behind a desk. And kicking him out? Not an option after all the work that has been put into him. The solution? More training, of course. Deciding Jensen was ideal for Special Forces, they quickly shunted him off for more training.
 
At the end of this training (18 months at Fort Benning and Fort Bragg), Jensen, now 20 years old, was immediately assigned to the Losers, a recently created Special Forces unit that was integrated with the CIA. The Losers were a team of misfits—All highly qualified but all difficult to work with for one reason or another. It was a gambit, but it was one that paid off. The team was a success. They got along, worked well together, and soon were being assigned mission after mission, most of them black ops and highly classified.
 
Five years later, the Losers were sent on a seek-and-destroy mission deep in the heart of a Bolivian jungle. After realizing there were kidnapped children on sight, they disobeyed orders from their handler, Max (a man whose voice they have only ever heard on the radio), and stormed the complex. They rescued the children and escaped the air strike. At the rendezvous spot, the helicopter couldn’t carry both them and the rescued children, so the team decided to let the children get out of there first. As the helicopter was taking off, the Losers watched helplessly while it was shot down on orders from Max. The realization that they were the ones who were supposed to be in that helicopter as well as the deaths of innocents, weighed heavily on their hearts as they tossed their dog tags into the burning debris, making it appear as if they too had died, and disappeared. The government publicly blamed them for the incident, saying that they were not acting on orders and it was their recklessness that had killed those children along with themselves.
 
Four months passed with the Losers living off the radar in Bolivia all the while trying to figure out how to clear their names and get back home. The team was approached by a mysterious woman named Aisha who had business proposition for them: transport to America where they could get their lives back and clear their names, and in return, Max was to die.  They accepted and soon found themselves loaded into coffins to be smuggled back into the US by air and, thanks to Aisha’s intel, planning a mission to capture Max in Miami.
 
Again, however, the mission didn’t go as planned. Or rather, it went off without a hitch, but instead of capturing Max they only retrieved a hard drive belonging to a company called Goliath. Convinced by Aisha that the hard drive contained valuables Max needed to make his next arms deal, the Losers agree to infiltrate Goliath headquarters to get the algorithm needed to hack the hard drive. They succeed and, using the information, Jensen is able to crack the hard drive to find that it is a courier drive containing $400 million of Max’s ill-gotten money. They also discover that one of the drive’s home systems is at the Port of LA—Making that their next target.
 
As they are preparing for the mission, Jensen was doing some background digging, trying to further figure out why Max tried to kill them after the Bolivia mission. While looking into Fadhil’s, the target’s, bank accounts he discovered $4 million dollars were missing and, upon tracking that, discovered that it had gone into a trust fund for Fadhil’s only child—Aisha.  Meanwhile, at the hotel, Aisha and Clay were lying in bed talking. She tried to get information on the mission back in Bolivia, but before she found out if Clay really killed her father or not the gang busted in on them telling Clay who she really was.  Knowing the Losers will shot first and ask questions later, Aisha ended up shooting Jensen in the arm before making her get away.
 
Despite fearing they may have been betrayed, the Losers decided to continue on with their mission and raid the Port of LA.  They were mere inches from completing their plan when they were betrayed by Roque, who had been working with Max since the Miami mission.  Just as everything looked bleak for the remaining team, Aisha ended up saving everyone from being executed, but let Clay know that their fight was not over yet.  The team succeeded in stopping Max but ultimately Max escaped.

With Max in the wind, the Losers decided to split up and lay low until he could be located again and they could make their move. It would keep them under Max’s radar, and, more importantly, keep their families safe. He ended up in Quiet Pines because of a figure he saw in the distance--More specifically a child that looked like one of the children who'd died in the helicopter crash. He kept following the just-out-of-reach figure until eventually he ended up in the desert, and, from there, in Quiet Pines.